From Mr G. Camilleri

Your correspondent’s “Gozitan dinosaurs and the missing link” (TMIS, 30 September) was an entertaining piece combining elements of Gozo-bashing, pseudo-reporting and ludicrous reasoning of appropriately gargantuan proportions. The range of flaws is too wide for a proper appreciation in a single response, so please permit me to focus on only one part of his article.

Reflecting on the fact that “one big section of the Rabat community” did not protest against the nomination of a new archpriest, your cunning correspondent sadly announces that this did not happen for the “right reasons”. Rather, he says, “they openly seek to be different and to be seen being so”. He explains that had they been “caught in the same ancient claptrap they would have acted pretty much the same”.

This muddled reasoning is beyond unravelling, and really deep stuff for someone who “dare(s) not speak for Gozitans”. Does not everybody know, perhaps even your fanciful correspondent, that both Victoria parishes were “caught” precisely in the same situation, when their parish priests were replaced on the same day and at the same time?

Nobody will know why your writer fails to acknowledge exemplary behaviour when it is so obvious. Correspondents should not wear blinkers when looking around them and trying to pontificate on hidden reasons. Indeed, perhaps the problem here is not dinosaurs and missing links, but hare-brained correspondents with a Jurassic vision of things.

George Camilleri

Victoria